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  • > This weapon, seen in a newly revealed Portal 2 prototype, was previously seen in Half-Life 2: Episode 3 footage released by Valve.

    Fun fact, you can get all the normal Half-Life 2 weapons in normal Portal using the `impulse 101` cheat command in the console (probably requires enabling `sv_cheats 1` before).

    by account42
  • Is there a lookup that gives you a title to blob mapping?
    by mmastrac
  • If it will be really seeded forever that would be a great way of archiving for posterity!

    btw interestingly from the leak homepage:

    "To the operators of browsers/indexers: please look into caching or mirroring the blobs, as a large volume of requests at this point are coming from these, which seem to be impacting downloads for everyone. It's a 15 GB directory that would save the time of many people. Many people should have them all downloaded by now.

    We are facing pretty severe link oversaturation. If you managed to download something please try seeding them on the torrent and/or sharing the original files on third party services to spare us some load. The more torrent seeds the faster and more viable it shall be."

    by giov4
  • I think there could be a market for distributed cloud storage: the client promises a coin payment for $X, in return for storing Y mb/GB of encrypted data. The way to prove it is still there is by sending periodic hash checks of random segments of the file. If the correct match comes back, a portion (rent) is paid to renew the storage. Upon retrieval, the final sum is paid.
    by gosub100
  • I did not know what to look for, so I looked at the list to see what is in there and had no idea what I was looking at. I am making a lot of assumptions and don't know how any of this works.

    * It appears the dats_dates.txt file is a list of depot item contents string sorted by depo numeric identifier.

    * It also appears the depo identifier is the first underscore separated value on a given line

    * It seems the more popular artifacts are referenced multiple times in the list due to the quantity of contents and versions associated with a given depo

    All of that could be wrong, but nonetheless I wrote a small 2minute Node.js script to analyze the list. It takes about 0.03 seconds to execute, on my machine anyways, and produces as output a list of depo identifiers sorted by the frequency in which those identifiers occur in the dats_date.txt file.

    These identifiers do not always resolve to a game title using the steamdb.info site but several do. Because though because steamdb.info applies rate limiting and then a temporary IP address block.

    https://gist.github.com/prettydiff/fe1456dbd458b8a376961f4f6...

    by austin-cheney
  • Leak homepage: https://steam2.download/
    by charcircuit
  • How can they (host, domain owner) not get sued?
    by edoceo
  • This is one of the craziest "breach" stories I've come across recently, I feel like it's gone a little bit under the radar considering the size and scope.
    by guillybarres
  • Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497110
    by xnx
  • Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498002
    by HelloUsername
  • - would be nice to see ubisoft game source codes leak for their 20 yr old games which they have completely abandoned at this point
    by vivzkestrel
  • Tangential, but it's interesting to me that there are "Valve watchers", people who are big on social media for doing Valve analysis and kremlinology. Humans are so cool.
    by zetalyrae
  • Sorry what's the link between valve and kremlin?
    by jokoon
  • I wonder if this will allow for reviving old SRCDS (Source Dedicated Server) versions.

    Older versions of popular titles like Counter-Strike: Source would still be playable on their original hardware if the old clients + servers were available. As it is now, these games are no longer playable on original early-mid 2000s hardware because Steam no longer supports Win2k/XP, and even if it did, the games themselves have been heavily patched and updated over the years and have higher system requirements. Old clients still exist (even prior to "teraleak"), but the SRCDS versions are gone as far as I can tell.

    I just think it'd be fun to host retro LAN parties using the hardware and software we had back then, or even just to revisit what it was like to be a server OP in those days.

    by accrual
  • v34 CSS srcds is very easy to find online
    by antonkochubey
  • I think the most interesting thing I've seen from these leaks are the Portal 2 beta content videos. The temporary time-slow mechanic and the beta voice acting have been really interesting to see. The time slow mechanic in particular could have made the game a lot more accessible to gamers with slow reflexes and refocused the game on the puzzle elements.
    by mister_mort
  • There is no puzzle in Portal 2 that requires fast reflexes.
    by Stevvo
  • Yeah the long forgotten Steam release of League of Legends is also in the files (it was only available for like 5 months)

    Might not be the most interesting game in the leak but old versions of live service games are almost impossible to come by

    https://steamdb.info/app/20590/

    Downloaded it to extract all the old assets but it still needs an encrypted depot key

    >error!! -- extract: missing depot key!, pass --key if you know it though

    Some people reported that "--key 0000000000000000" or "--key 0" works on some depots... well not here

    by haunter
  • > the old assets

    The old version of LoL has the best aesthetic. The new art style was bad enough to get me to quit the game.

    by bob1029